Sci-fi writer Ursula Leguin wrote a book about an anarcho-syndicalistic society called The Dispossessed. In that book, those who ‘opted out’ of this society were barred from enjoying the fruits of the collective labor but could still live on the outskirts and start their own subsistence farm or whatever. Societal control in that story was basically maintained through personal relationships among the community (shame those who don’t want to contribute) whereas the capitalistic society control method is threaten with death by restricting access to resources (home,food,water,etc). I’m not saying public shaming is the best route, but it’s still more humane than work or die.
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brendansimms@lemmy.worldto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•What is the best place to search for actual news about a keyword and get results that are actually timely and date order descending?1·2 days agoKagi = best 5$/mo I spend. Found them in my de-googling process.
brendansimms@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•Plane tickets are getting cheaper as domestic travel demand weakens7·2 days agoprobably garnishing of wages for student loans in default (despite previous administration providing more payment leniency) and then handing that money directly to Boeing execs to congratulate them on destroying Boeing
brendansimms@lemmy.worldto World News@lemmy.world•US military says it will limit disclosing details on strikes in YemenEnglish9·3 days ago“This is the most transparent Administration in history” - The White House
brendansimms@lemmy.worldto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Why are Nickel and Cobalt considered ferrous?2·6 days agoYea it seems like including Ni and Co as ‘ferrous’ materials is only done in certain industries/applications. From a pure chemistry point of view, only iron (Fe) is ferrous. [source: got bachelors in chem]. Also, as mentioned elsewhere, some people/industries [incorrectly] use the term ‘ferrous’ to mean magnetic, but the actual term is ‘ferromagnetic’. Lots of the old terminology (lots of latin) is still used even though we now know they are technically incorrect.
brendansimms@lemmy.worldto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Why are Nickel and Cobalt considered ferrous?3·7 days agoIn what context have you seen them referred to as ferrous? [source?]
brendansimms@lemmy.worldto World News@lemmy.world•Norway launches scheme to lure top researchers away from US universitiesEnglish9·7 days agoA well advertised Canadian Scientific Job Fair hosted in the DC region would probably be packed full
We’re all guilty and we should all go on strike
This shit is so dumb. Americans clearly want to use drugs. A gov of the people should therefore make it as safe as possible. End this whole stupid talking point by legalizing and regulating. Black markets can never be stopped - they just evolve.
brendansimms@lemmy.worldto World News@lemmy.world•China considers nuclear plant on the MoonEnglish5·8 days agomaybe this is how we establish Lunar Thanksgiving
brendansimms@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•Gen Z grads say their college degrees were a waste of time and money as AI infiltrates the workplace22·8 days agoThis is a NYPOST article. It links the study, which is an ‘Indeed Report’ produced by the company Indeed on its job postings. The report does not contain the words ‘Gen Z’ at all. This is a trash article.
It is not new though, it started with Guantanamo concentration camp for Taliban fighters.
It is not new though, it started with 10 concentrations camps during World War 2 for Japanese Americans.
It is not new though, it started with concentration camps for the extermination and removal of the Native Americans
I try and give the general population a little more credit on these food issues - it appears to me that the main factor is time. People do not have enough time and energy to prepare every meal from whole fruits/veggies/whatever. Certainly laziness/lack of food education is an issue, but working eight hours plus an hour commute each way (like in the DC region) knocks out ten hours of your day already. Now adding on top of that the time it takes to think of a meal idea, purchase the goods, and prepare them, and this becomes an exhausting affair - one that never ends! And three meals a day? People need more free time to take care of themselves.
Come on over to Maryland :) Specifically the corridor between DC-Balt-Annapolis is pretty progressive (but expensive…)
brendansimms@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•‘Full-blown meltdown’ at Pentagon after Hegseth’s second Signal chat revealed1225·10 days agoyes - as a war criminal for ordering the murder of Yemeni citizens
brendansimms@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•Widespread job cuts begin at health agencies2·30 days agoNo not easily. The FDA media office is not a great example because they disseminate FDA information between the public and FDA officials, so no state would be able to take that over because…where would they get the info? But as far as states taking over the research labs - that is incredibly expensive. FDA is currently like 7 to 8 billion $ per year from the budget. I’m reading about the FDA right now though, and they do have lots of offices in many states and work with states on food safety and all that, so I guess each state could start its own small version of the fda. The waste/overlap that comes with having each state have its own little FDA would be ridiculous though
brendansimms@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•Trump warned automakers not to raise prices after his tariffs and be happy how ‘great’ they are4·1 month agoIt seemed odd to me to that Shawn Fain would throw support behind tariffs, but it does make sense in this way: “free-trade” agreements allowed US mftr companies to move manufacturing outside the US, where they could pay employees way less while still charging huge markups while selling inside the us, and the c-suite pockets the surplus. The new tariffs '‘supposedly’ should encourage companies to bring manufacturing jobs back to the states, which is in line with the goals of the UAW - improve working conditions and encourage job growth in the auto sector in the US. So even if the real end result of the tariffs is that companies just continue to overcharge and screw people over and find ways to avoid paying fair wages (which is clearly whats going to happen), the alleged goals of the tariffs are in line with UAW goals…but its still bad optics for Shawn Fain to agree with Trump on anything for a siginificant amount of UAW members, especially since UAW now includes a lot of college/university/education/science sector members as well
brendansimms@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•Trump cuts threaten a ‘generation of scientists’ as many weigh leaving US4·2 months agoI’m in 5th year of phd in semiconductor design and fabrication - I too am weighing my international options!
brendansimms@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•Meta staff torrented nearly 82TB of pirated books for AI training — court records reveal copyright violations24·3 months agoI’m mostly upset that this puts z-library and libgen back high up on the anti-pirating enforcers radar
I am gonna give Al Jazeera the benefit of the doubt here and assume that since this article comes from their ‘Explainer’ section, that they purposefully wrote the headline in a way that a person searching for that question would end up at this article. Maybe they are targeting people who would read that headline and think ‘Oh wow does he?’ as opposed to people (like me) who would read that headline and think ‘yea doubt it’